[BC] Digital TV converter boxes

[Mark Humphrey]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 3:27 AM, Harold Hallikainen
<harold at hallikainen.com> wrote:

>  We talked about using a
>  polar planimeter. My father used to determine the area inside a curve by
>  plotting it out on paper, cutting out the shape, then weighing the paper.
>  He said paper was pretty uniform in density.
>

On a related subject, if you need to determine land area, here's an
online planimeter which uses Google Maps:

http://www.acme.com/planimeter/

Just be careful to click at each corner point in the correct sequence;
it doesn't allow intermediate points to be added later on.

Mark